To be considered for this position, Its mandatory that candidates include a 1-page cover sheet describing their 6+ yrs. experience designing, implementing, and supporting eCommerce, Cashiering, Point of Sale, or Fiscal systems along with their resume.

The State of Wisconsin is looking for a Technical Architect III

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

Experience: 6 to 9 years Application and System Architecture

• System Architecture for designing, implementing, and supporting eCommerce, Cashiering, Point of Sale, or Fiscal systems

• Experience in integrating with payment gateways, processors, providers, and portals

• Experience in Integrating multiple applications, SaaS, cloud and on-prem

• Expert knowledge of .Net technologies including C# and ASP.NET MVC

• Business Intelligence and reporting capabilities

Nice to Haves:

Preferred experience with cloud technologies specifically Azure Services

 Currently position is 100% remote, subject to change.

Summary

Under the general supervision of the Solution Delivery Manager and IT Director in the Bureau of Information Technology of the DFI (Department of Financial Institutions), and as a member of the DFI’s Solution Delivery Team, this position functions as a Technical Architect. The Technical Architect will be responsible for understanding business requirements, developing technical documentation and solutions along with planning the implementation of appropriate solutions by interacting with agency product owners and DFI Technical team, merchants, payment gateways, and third parties. Conducts complex work important to the organization. Works with minimal supervision with wide latitude for independent judgment. Persons in this role require experience and proficiency in the specific disciplines of eCommerce, Cashiering, Point of Sale, and Fiscal systems; typically six to nine years of related work experience.

Objectives and Tasks

• Manages and develops the architecture for a financial solution, working closely with DFI technical staff, Product Owners, Project Managers, IT Leadership and external vendors.
• Delivers the architectural design for products or product groups and inputs to the roadmap by utilizing knowledge of defined reference architectures, technology trends, and implementation experience in order to translate a business need into a solution blueprint that represents an end-to-end technical solution.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Delivers the implementation of solutions within the product / product group and leads the integration strategy for cross-product group purposes.
• Identifies the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes etc...) and financial impact of the solution architecture.
• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies or misalignment with business requirements.
• Defines and documents the guidelines, standards, and solution architecture to ensure product-based decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring product architecture assurance and compliance.
• Engages with Tech Leads (internal and external), Product Managers, and IT Leadership to ensure alignment with the overall enterprise architecture.

• Proposes new and innovative ways to support business initiatives.
• Prepare feasibility reports showing the cost benefits of the various alternatives. Present these reports to both client and IT management.
• Create detailed project plans and estimates for design, programming, testing, integrating and implementation tasks.
• Write functional requirements documents defining business and technical system requirements.
• Review detailed design specifications to assure the integrity and accuracy of the specifications.
• Write technical specifications for complex programs that other team members will code.
• Identify technical and application alternatives to meet specifications and recommend most efficient, maintainable, and cost-effective solution.
• Analyze existing systems and modify as needed to improve system performance.
• Evaluate impact on existing systems of new and proposed State and Federal regulation changes.
• Respond to clients' needs for assistance and correct system production problems with appropriate timeliness.
• Assist in problem resolution, support and diagnosis for databases and systems
• Review system design specifications or project requests to understand requirements and prepare detailed estimates of required resources.

• Code, test, and debug (or facilitate the coding, testing, and debugging of) complex computer systems, utilizing DFI's current development tools, in compliance with current development standards, procedures, and policies.
• Plan and design integration, system, and/or client acceptance testing to ensure that systems function together correctly and meet client requirements. Coordinate testing with operations and business staff.
• Prepare and/or update (or facilitate the preparation and/or updating of) documentation, in accordance with current standards, to provide programmers with information required to understand and maintain the systems and/or procedures.
• Develop deployment documentation to thoroughly test systems, procedures; and production implementations.
• Conduct training of clients and appropriate IT staff to ensure a thorough understanding of the application system.
• Redesign and rewrite current systems for maximum efficiency, taking advantage of new utilities, data structures, and software.
• Model and document database structures to meet the system requirements.
• Develop data extracts and data conversion routines to transmit data to outside parties and other application systems.

Knowledge /Skills/Ability (KSA):

1. Knowledge of systems design, architecture, development practices and principles.
2. Knowledge of systems analysis techniques.
3. Knowledge of cost benefit analysis techniques.
4. Knowledge of object oriented principles and design patterns.
5. Professional oral and written communication skills.
6. Problem determination and resolution skills.
7. Knowledge of web-enabled and e-commerce/ financial applications.
8. Business Intelligence and reporting capabilities
9. Knowledge of client/server and Internet concepts, procedures, and techniques.

1. Experience in Cloud technologies specifically Azure Cloud Services
2. Experience in DevOps
3. Experience in integrating with payment portals
4. Experience in Integrating multiple applications and deploying Applications in cloud
5. Expert knowledge of .Net technologies including C# and ASP.NET MVC.
6. Expert knowledge of Web Services, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, Entity Framework and AJAX
7. Working knowledge of Database Modeling/Design.
8. Expert Working knowledge of SQL and Stored Procedures.
9. Knowledge of Agile- Scrum